Belina, Bernd; Helms, Gesa - In: Urban Studies 40 (2003) 9, pp. 1845-1867
Recent years have witnessed changes in the discourses and practices of urban policing towards 'quality-of-life offences' and the presence of unwanted groups (beggars, drug-users) in city centres. The authors argue that the change towards a more 'law-and-order' style of law enforcement, often...